Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2009-01-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Sergio Belkin schrieb: > The output test was: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=1M count=1000 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 7.80926 seconds, 134 MB/s This looks ok. > Below is output of tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 > > Product Type: Disk Drive But sg0

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2009-01-07 Thread Sergio Belkin
The output test was: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 7.80926 seconds, 134 MB/s I have a server let say A that has director and storage daemon with a DAT72 and other server say B which has storage daemon and a LTO

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2009-01-03 Thread Jesper Krogh
Jason A. Kates wrote: > For a speed test /dev/zero isn't the best item to use as the hardware > compression will show how good it can be. I would test on files that > aren't in the OS cache and will have representative level of > compression. I agree, but if the test with /dev/zero ends with 10M

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2009-01-03 Thread Jason A. Kates
For a speed test /dev/zero isn't the best item to use as the hardware compression will show how good it can be. I would test on files that aren't in the OS cache and will have representative level of compression. -Jason On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 20:14 +0100, Jesper Kr

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2009-01-02 Thread John Drescher
> I have an IBM Type 8765-1UXD LTO3, is working but not at its best performance. > As wikipedia its Max Speed (MB/s) should be Max Speed 80 MB/s and the > actual is about 10 Mb/s. > Is this over a network? If so is the network Gbit? Are you talking about an incremental backup or full? Is your datab

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2009-01-02 Thread Jesper Krogh
Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, > > I have an IBM Type 8765-1UXD LTO3, is working but not at its best performance. > As wikipedia its Max Speed (MB/s) should be Max Speed 80 MB/s and the > actual is about 10 Mb/s. > > Could be some miscofiguration of bacula? What can I twak? I tried not > using compre

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:44, Rudolf Cejka wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote (2006/02/21): > > > One thread would read data and compute md5, the second thread would > > > just try to write data to the tape. > > > > This is already the case. Reading the data and computing the md5 sum is > > done in t

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-21 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Kern Sibbald wrote (2006/02/21): > > One thread would read data and compute md5, the second thread would > > just try to write data to the tape. > This is already the case. Reading the data and computing the md5 sum is done > in the FD, writing the data is done in the SD. Not only are they separat

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 16 February 2006 12:25, Rudolf Cejka wrote: > Keith Brautigam wrote (2006/02/15): > > Quinton Jansen wrote: > > >What speeds are others getting when using an LTO-3 drive? > > I take up interest just in direct writing speed to the tape reported > by iostat, which I have typically about 6

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-17 Thread Keith Brautigam
Rudolf Cejka wrote: Keith Brautigam wrote (2006/02/16): What actual speed are you getting now during the de-spooling process? Typically 60 - 80 MB/s (note that file boundaries on tapes temporarily slows down the speed), however now my backup is idle, so I could not see it right now

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-17 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Keith Brautigam wrote (2006/02/16): > What actual speed are you getting now during the de-spooling process? Typically 60 - 80 MB/s (note that file boundaries on tapes temporarily slows down the speed), however now my backup is idle, so I could not see it right now. > Also, how would you recomme

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-17 Thread Gregory Orange
Gregory Orange wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about your bakups. Is there a thousands of small files? Do you have compression set or a signiture in the file set resource? Are you using data spooling? Is the database on the same machine as the bacula server? What version

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-17 Thread Gregory Orange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about your bakups. Is there a thousands of small files? Do you have compression set or a signiture in the file set resource? Are you using data spooling? Is the database on the same machine as the bacula server? What version of bacula are you usi

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-16 Thread Keith Brautigam
Rudolf Cejka wrote: Keith Brautigam wrote (2006/02/15): Quinton Jansen wrote: What speeds are others getting when using an LTO-3 drive? I take up interest just in direct writing speed to the tape reported by iostat, which I have typically about 60-80 MB/s, but still I think

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-16 Thread Quinton Jansen
Many thanks for all your feedback. After spending 90 minutes redoing the same debugging with two different people, Quantum decided to send a replacement unit. Hopefully that will be here today. Thank for your configuration feedback. I do appreciate it. Quinton On February 16, 2006 03:25, Ru

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Now this _is_ a little off-topic, going from the subject line, but... On 2/16/2006 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I recently got into an argument where I work (hospital environment) where the person incharge of network planning said that they have done benchmarks and gigabit does not inp

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-16 Thread drescher0110-bacula
I have a few questions about your bakups. Is there a thousands of small files? Do you have compression set or a signiture in the file set resource? Are you using data spooling? Is the database on the same machine as the bacula server? What version of bacula are you using? Sorry if you answered

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-16 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> Indeed. However even for those hosts that do have 100Mb somewhere > between them and the tape drive, one might expect better than 3.5MB/s - > as I said, with some tweaking. > > Another speed factor we've noticed (which has possibly been discussed ad > nauseum elsewhere on this list) is that o

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-16 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Keith Brautigam wrote (2006/02/15): > Quinton Jansen wrote: > >What speeds are others getting when using an LTO-3 drive? I take up interest just in direct writing speed to the tape reported by iostat, which I have typically about 60-80 MB/s, but still I think that it should be better, because 80 M

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread Gregory Orange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes over a network except the fastest one (where all of our data lies), mostly over gigabit. The two slowest hosts are due for retirement in the next few months. Greg. Without 100% gigbit (no 100MBit links/switches routers...) or better between the bacula server and th

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> Yes over a network except the fastest one (where all of our data lies), > mostly over gigabit. The two slowest hosts are due for retirement in the > next few months. > Greg. Without 100% gigbit (no 100MBit links/switches routers...) or better between the bacula server and the data you will not

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread Gregory Orange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got a HP DL/585, looks like same drive, dedicated SCSI-attached. The lowest rate I saw on our simple btape fill was 58MB/sec. As for real backup rates, various hosts give different speeds. With all four hosts running 1.38.3 compiled from source, our most recent fu

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> We've got a HP DL/585, looks like same drive, dedicated SCSI-attached. > The lowest rate I saw on our simple btape fill was 58MB/sec. As for real > backup rates, various hosts give different speeds. With all four hosts > running 1.38.3 compiled from source, our most recent full backups gave >

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread Gregory Orange
Quinton Jansen wrote: What speeds are others getting when using an LTO-3 drive? If I'm reading the numbers correctly, 2GB in 13 minutes (10GB/hour) is way too slow (should be around 200G/hour). I've got a brand new Quantum Superloader-3, LTO3 attached to a dedicated SCSI bus on a HP DL/380,

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread Keith Brautigam
Quinton Jansen wrote: What speeds are others getting when using an LTO-3 drive? If I'm reading the numbers correctly, 2GB in 13 minutes (10GB/hour) is way too slow (should be around 200G/hour). I've got a brand new Quantum Superloader-3, LTO3 attached to a dedicated SCSI bus on a HP DL/380,