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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] ssd drive question - Throttle clients
On 6/7/2012 1:03 PM, Tim Krieger wrote:
> Kind of branching off here but felt I should toss in my 2 cents re:
> Throttling clients
>
> We have a similar problem where some remote
On 6/7/2012 1:03 PM, Tim Krieger wrote:
> Kind of branching off here but felt I should toss in my 2 cents re:
> Throttling clients
>
> We have a similar problem where some remote clients have low bandwidth pipes
> and we can't consume all available bandwidth. Our environment is mostly
> linux
DEST="bacula.server.org"
IF="eth1"
/sbin/iptables -D OUTPUT -t mangle -d $DEST -p tcp --dport 9103 -j MARK
--set-mark 11
/sbin/tc qdisc del dev $IF root
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From: Josh Fisher [mailto:jfis...@pvct.com]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 8:04 AM
To: bacula
On 6/4/2012 5:32 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> I suspect that using SSD for data spooling would make little
> difference to overall backup times unless the clients being backed up
> could send data much faster than the storage server could spool it
> without SSDs. It would probably be a larger p
On 06/06/12 11:10, Moray Henderson wrote:
> Are SSDs more reliable these days?
They seem to be, but I'm one of those odd people who's distrustful
enough of hdds to use raid1 (or better) on desktop systems and I would
do the same for SSDs too.
HDDs aren't particularly reliable devices in any ca
> Are SSDs more reliable these days?
In general consumer grade SSDs are more reliable than desktop hard
drives and have a longer expected lifetime (5 to 10 years versus 5
years) however in this usage pattern that may not be the case.
Although SSDs tend to have controller failure and from that they
Are SSDs more reliable these days? You read things like
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-sca
le.html, but I'm old-fashioned enough to rate reliability above performance.
Moray.
"To err is human; to purr, feline."
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On 04/06/12 17:06, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> (No, I have not considered moving to Postgres. Honestly, Postgres
> makes my teeth bleed.)
It's a lot easier than it looks - and as a nice bonus you don't need to
spend ages tuning it.
WRT the earlier comments about SSD data spooling: It's a BIG win
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 05:32:16PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> to keep the LTO4 streaming almost continuously anyway. What I do notice
> is that Bacula sits for some time - many minutes - after each job ends
> doing nothing but batch-writing attributes into the DB.
>
That's the reason I
On 06/04/2012 03:00 PM, Josh Fisher wrote:
> It makes a big difference for database-only stuff, like file selection
> during restore, pruning volumes, etc. I suppose if you have a lot of
> really fast servers to backup, then database performance would be a big
> factor for backups as well. My ob
On 6/4/2012 12:06 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 11:04 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
>> I moved a bacula db from a RAID1 array of two WD RE-4 drives to an old
>> 80 GB Intel X25-M, which is not one of the fastest compared to more
>> recent SSDs. However it has random read and write performanc
On 06/04/2012 11:04 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
>
> On 5/31/2012 9:19 PM, Randy Katz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone tried to use an SSD drive to house the MySQL database for
>> Bacula and understand the
>> performance differences, if any? I am wondering if it will provide a
>> significant speed boost
On 5/31/2012 9:19 PM, Randy Katz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone tried to use an SSD drive to house the MySQL database for
> Bacula and understand the
> performance differences, if any? I am wondering if it will provide a
> significant speed boost to running it
> on disk or not. Any clues might be v
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