Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-05-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Heitor Faria In chel di` si favelave... > You can use the btape speed test to verify the best values. I've just done some btape tests with block size and file size, using block size of 512K, 1M and 2M, but found that there's litle or no differences over 1M, so i can confirm the 'paper' y

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-05-20 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 20/05/2024 21:35, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello Marco, > i have: > Maximum blocksize = 512K I usually don't like setting fixed block sizes, but letting Bacula determine. But Maximum Block Size = 1 MB or even a little bit more should be safe for LTO-9. https://www.bacula.lat/otimizando-a-v

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-05-20 Thread Heitor Faria
Hello Marco, > i have:  > Maximum blocksize = 512K I usually don't like setting fixed block sizes, but letting Bacula determine. But Maximum Block Size = 1 MB or even a little bit more should be safe for LTO-9. https://www.bacula.lat/otimizando-a-velocidade-de-fitas/ https://www.bareos.com

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Cejka Rudolf via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > - Spool Data = yes, attribute spooling is automatically enabled too Done. > In device storage section: > - Maximum File Size = 32 GB, for LTO-6 and older you can think about 16 GB i have: Maximum File Size = 50G > - Su

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > I'll provide feedback. Thanks. Better, reached 180MB/s. Probably i need to move bacula spool on a dedicated SSD disk (currently, on an ZFS RAID pool, backed up with an SSD read cache) to reach better performaces. Still incremental are very sl

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-29 Thread Cejka Rudolf via Bacula-users
Hello, you need all of these: In job director section: - Spool Data = yes, attribute spooling is automatically enabled too In device storage section: - Maximum File Size = 32 GB, for LTO-6 and older you can think about 16 GB - Sufficient Maximum Job Spool Size or Maximum Spool Size, so overall

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Disk that is local to the server does not mean it is local to the > bacula-sd process or tape drive. If the connection is 1 gigabit > Ethernet, then max rate is going to be 125 MB/s. Nono, i meant literally 'local disk': i'm put

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-25 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 1/24/24 12:48, Marco Gaiarin wrote: My new IBM LTO9 tape unit have a data sheet performace of: https://www.ibm.com/docs/it/ts4500-tape-library/1.10.0?topic=performance-lto-specifications so on worst case (compression disabled) seems to perform 400 MB/s on an LTO9 tape. Practicall

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-25 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Am 25.01.24 um 10:06 schrieb Marco Gaiarin: 2) checked disk performance (data came only from local disk); i've currently 3 servers, some perform better, some worster, but the best one have a read disk performance pretty decent, at least 200MB/s on random access (1500 MB/s on sequential one).

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> 2) checked disk performance (data came only from local disk); i've currently > 3 servers, some perform better, some worster, but the best one have a read > disk performance pretty decent, at least 200MB/s on random access (1500 MB/s > on sequential one). Jim Pollard on private email ask me ab